New Research in Illiberalism:
Illiberal Practices
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Wednesday, October 26, 2022
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (EST)
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This event is on the record and open to the public. |
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New Research in Illiberalism is a series hosted by the Illiberalism Studies Program featuring authors of chapters published in the Routledge Handbook of Illiberalism (2021) eds. András Sajó, Renáta Uitz, Stephen Holmes. The speakers will present their research based on their chapter in the handbook with a group discussion afterwards.
This seminar discusses three key aspects of illiberalism: the issue of surveillance, restricting NGOs, and the way gender issues are instrumentalized for political purposes. The concept of practice as a unit of analysis illuminates the distinction between illiberal and authoritarian practices, and suggests how a practice perspective can provide a more socially relevant and resonant understanding of illiberalism. Are illiberal democracies more prone to rely on surveillance strategies than liberal democracies to advance their political agendas, and what specific advantages do surveillance strategies offer to illiberal states? What are the links between anti-genderism and global right/right-wing populism (two phenomena strictly related to contemporary illiberalism) and what are their efforts to reshape human rights epistemology?
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M.E. (Marlies) Glasius is a Professor in International Relations at the Department of Politics, University of Amsterdam. Her main research interests are in authoritarianism, global civil society, international criminal justice and human security. Currently, She is serving as head of the Department of Political Science at the UvA, and working on a book titled Authoritarian Practices in a Global Age.
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Steven Feldstein is a senior fellow in Carnegie’s Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, where he focuses on issues of democracy and technology, human rights, and U.S. foreign policy. He previously served as the holder of the Frank and Bethine Church Chair of Public Affairs and an associate professor at Boise State University.
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Nausica Palazzo is an Assistant Professor in Constitutional Law at NOVA School of Law in Lisbon, who works in the area of family law, constitutional law, and sexual politics. She graduated in law from Bocconi University in 2014, earned an LL.M. from the University of Michigan School of Law, and a cum laude Ph.D. in Comparative Law from the University of Trento with a dissertation on the legal recognition of non-traditional families in Canada, the US, and Europe. For the completion of her dissertation, she received six fellowships and grants, including a Fulbright Fellowship.
Her latest book Legal Recognition of Non-Conjugal Families came out in February 2021 with Hart Publishing and a forthcoming co-edited collection on queer/religious alliances in family law will be published by Anthem Press in 2022.
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Marlene Laruelle, Ph.D., is Director of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies; Director of the Central Asia Program; Director of the Illiberalism Studies Program; Co-Director of PONARS Eurasia; and Research Professor of International Affairs at The George Washington University. She works on political, social, and cultural changes in the post-Soviet space. Marlene's research explores the transformations of nationalist and conservative ideologies in Russia, nationhood construction in Central Asia, as well as the development of Russia's Arctic regions.
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Illiberalism Studies Program
Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES)
Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
1957 E Street, NW | Suite 412 | Washington, DC | 20052
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